New thing: my 2 very aloof and snooty Siamese have decided everytime I sit in my big chair with the lap top, phone, reader or book it’s an open invite (it is) for them to come and walk allover me. Looking for a place to use me for a catbed. I get loud purring, kneading, arguing with each other. A hiss or 3. Finally they settle in the exact worst spot to use the device or read the page. Its uncanny. Of course, then my leg goes to sleep and so I need to adjust and the game starts allover. Fun times. Fun times.
I’m color-blind.
When folks hear this, they often ask me rather a lot of questions that I’ve fielded rather a lot of times before — and, hey, that doesn’t actually bother me; they seem genuinely interested, and I’m happy to carry on that conversation.
Until the traffic-lights question, because, even after all these years, I’m still at a loss: I can’t just say that red is on top without sounding like a dick and cracking up onlookers; and if I act like it’s a good question and the answer isn’t obvious, then I see (a) the obvious answer dawn on them, followed by (b) a look that conveys how it’s kind of pathetic that I apparently had to put some effort into thinking it through, as if it were a good question with a nonobvious answer.
There has to be a better reply, but all I’ve got is welp, it’s you or me.
People who are late to a concert.
I just went to a great outdoor concert. It was sold out. It was sold out 6 months ago so the people who bought tickets must have thought it was pretty good band (it was a great band). The concert was supposed to start at 7:30. At 7:30 the venue was 55% full. I predicted what was going to happen next to the people around me. The remaining stragglers would interrupt everyone in the row, sit there for 5 minutes and then get up for beer. Followed by another trip to the bathroom even though there’s an intermission.
And yes, that’s exactly what proceeded to happen.
When I become emperor I’m going to mandate that at the start of all concerts the gates are closed. That is followed by the people in the back moving forward to the empty seats. The stragglers are then allowed to fill the vacated seats in the back and they can collectively put up with each other’s beer/potty breaks thus leaving the rest of the crowd free to enjoy the music.
These, BTW are the same people who insist on holding a phone above their head (blocking your view) and filming the show while talking to their buddies.
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Household appliances keep breaking. Last year it was the hot water heater and this year it’s the fridge. Granted, both were getting up there in years (20 something) but it’s a pain replacing stuff all the time and I lost a lot of good food due to freezer failure.
Everyone in my life doesn’t know how to wait the proper amount of time to unlock their door when I’m unlockng my door.
Well, I’d have to save up if you don’t want to come on your own. How does 2050 sound?
I had a lecturer at uni who did that with his lectures. You were on time, or you were out. There’d be some who didn’t get the message when he gave it at the start of the semester, walked in late and were told to get out. After a few instances, it just didn’t happen any more.
Pretty certain I’ll be dead before then. But I’ll send Mr.Wrekker on. He’s nice and handy to have around. Just apply beer, daily.
You could mention that it would be an issue if the signal wasn’t always the same one on top, which is apparently the case for the railway version of traffic lights. So you can’t drive a train if you’re colourblind- they have to be able to tell from further away as well. Or say it’s tricky to tell in the dark or at a distance or when it’s a bit foggy sometimes, until you’re close enough to see which one’s the top light. Assuming that might be the case, anyway…
I went to a medical conference last week on Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s a hassle trying to get into the city, pay to park and still get to the conference on time (check-in at 6:15!). I have a parking lot that is cheap for DC at $16 a day if you are in before 8:30. On day two, I went to put my ticket in the machine to check out and it was slightly bent so the machine wouldn’t take it. The attendant told me I had to pay the full price ($22). I pointed out that I was in before 8:30 and the time was printed on the ticket. He said that he couldn’t read it because he didn’t have his glasses so I had to pay the full price.
Meanwhile, the state requires a certain number of hours of in person continuing medical education to renew your license. Getting the total amount is not a problem but it is always a hassle arranging to be somewhere in person, taking time off work etc. So I go to this conference which gives me 13 hours over two days. Everything is now computerized. Just sign in, do the evaluations of the courses you attended and claim your hours by 8/26. I go back to work Thursday and Friday and of course I’m swamped because I took two days off. I finally get a chance to sign in on Friday afternoon but I can only pull up the courses from Wednesday, so it will only give me those credits. I try to contact the company but they are only open Monday through Friday and I have to complete this by 8/26. I know I scanned my card in both days but there is nothing I can do. Reporting to the board is on an honor system unless they audit you but I am still frustrated after all that hassle and expense not to get my full hours.
What do you do at intersections with a single flashing light on all 4 corners?
I keep getting sniped on buying a house. The area I want to move to is hot for flippers with cash in hand. So I either have to decide to spend $250K on an hours consideration or not have a chance at a decent place.
It’s also aggravating when you’re the last post.
or not…
The thing I find aggravating is having to deal only with a computer (there’s no phone number, of course you can’t ring up an actual person, oh no), and the computer is dim-witted. You send a question to the “computer” on a website (after being forced to look at all sorts of unrelated “helpful” answers to other questions), with all information about what’s gone wrong/what you need to know, and you get a dim-witted response from the computer that has nothing to do with what you’ve asked.
Or, you go into the bank to lodge an application, you give information, then you get an email from the “computer” which ignores the information you’ve already provided and goes by what was put into the computer. An email that sends you a link to something on a computer THAT COULD HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO YOU WHEN YOU MET WITH THE PERSON.
I suppose he said, “Then why does the folder have an American Express logo on it?!” The waitress probably said, “It’s merely a folder you use to put your payment in-- it’s not meant to imply acceptance of American Express.”
If that was the case, the waitress should have explained the fine print/mouseprint when she brought the check in the first place!
boy, a topic that was practically made for me!
I bought a toaster oven from Sears and the oven itself was perfectly fine but one of the bundled accessories was broken out of the box. I tried to exchange just that one piece but they told me I’d have to repackage the whole thing and bring it back or else they couldn’t help me. (I talked to their chat-guy online and got it straightened out, but I was really mad at the time).
I got new contact lenses from Costco but my insurance co. wouldn’t reimburse me AND wouldn’t tell me why. I submitted the claim twice but was rejected without comment. I had to get our benefits team involved and it turns out it was simply because the doctor coded the exam and the lenses on a single line separated by a semi-colon and not on two separate lines. :smack:
Someone at the gym yesterday was using the bench as their personal storage rack (i.e. not doing any bench exercises but put their gym bag and water bottle on the bench so no one else can use it without asking him to move his sh*t)
This. I ordered something from Amazon and the tracking information says it was delivered. It wasn’t. There is no button or form to report this on Amazon or the USPS websites. Amazon has some circular “help” links that keep leading you back to a page that lists all the places your package “could” be, but no mention of what to do if it is not in any of those places.
The USPS website does not even acknowledge the possibility that a package could be listed as delivered and not be.
I’m currently getting Dish Network ads in the mail nearly daily. All of them offer my current package (I’m paying $90.65) with a DVR (that I don’t have) for $59.99 for two years. Can I get that price since I’m receiving these ads in the mail? Of course not!
$15 of my bill is HBO, which I understand. I have been able to get them to lower the price to $70.65 for two years without the DVR, but it requires auto billing and no paper bill. I don’t like being roped in!